What's The Point? Youth Guarantee Pathways Research
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Listen to the results of our four-year project with Ako Aotearoa, The Collaborative, Community Colleges NZ, YMCA, and Unitech. An exploration into the experiences of young people on Youth Guarantee fees-free training programmes and their education providers in New Zealand.
The aim of this project was to find out more about the experiences of learners on Youth Guarantee fees-free training programmes and their education providers for the purpose of improving educational provision and learner outcomes. Full details on the research project are available at Ako Aotearoa Final report 23 August 2019 
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Proposed Regional Youth Strategy
Enabling all young people to realise their potential.
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'We are a specialist provider of education and youth mentoring services working with over 3,000 young people every year throughout the South Island. We have been working in this challenging but rewarding area for over 35 years.
How do we do this better? In late 2017, we committed to writing the paper; 'Proposed Regional Youth Strategy Document', for the purpose of contributing to the discussion and thinking around youth transition and how this may be improved. We need to be a strong voice for those young people who struggle to achieve success in their education, personal, social and career development. Through our first-hand experience we know young people face complex barriers that prevent them from achieving success. At that time, policy settings made it increasingly difficult for us to cluster pastoral support and a learning environment for these young people in a manner that would greatly meet their needs. On behalf of our young people, it is our collective responsibility to engage and have this conversation with government. The necessary changes can only be influenced at a policy level. We published and socialised the paper in 2018. Our aim was to gather support from people and organisations involved in education and youth transition services, in order to inform the policy makers that a more coordinated youth transition strategy will improve the lives of our young people. |
